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1 week ago | 
magazine.washington.edu | Danielle Marie Holland
It’s 3 a.m., and Benson Hall is quiet. In the dimly lit second- floor hallway of the Nance Lab, undergraduate Kristin Bennett, ’25, opens a refrigerator and pulls out a container of brain tissue.
With tweezers, Bennett carefully picks up a photosensitive slice and examines it under a microscope, scanning the sample at 10x magnification, then 40x.
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2 weeks ago | 
m.kuow.org | Danielle Marie Holland |Patricia Murphy |Vaughan F. R. Jones
This week…Say goodbye to the Uncle Sam Billboard in southern Washington, now with new, or sort of new, ownership. Notable Seattle celebrities have been the target of home invasions over the past several months. And it’s raining men… Seattle is the most-male dominated major metro in the US. Author Danielle Marie Holland and KEXP DJ Kennady Quille are here to break down the week. We can only make Seattle Now because listeners support us. Tap here to make a gift and keep Seattle Now in your feed.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
thestranger.com | Danielle Marie Holland
Seattle renters are all too familiar with the gut-punch of rent renewal notices: a cheerful “Happy Anniversary!” followed by a staggering increase—9.9 percent, 15 percent, or a jaw-dropping 45 percent. Between 2021 and 2022, the city's median asking rent soared from $1,300 to $3,118, leaving many residents, particularly those with lower incomes, struggling to keep up with skyrocketing housing costs.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
parents.com | Danielle Marie Holland
As artificial intelligence (AI) companies rapidly release new models and major tech firms restructure to accelerate their initiatives, the debate over the use of AI in schools is intensifying.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
parents.com | Danielle Marie Holland
As parents, we hold our children's hands as they navigate the world, hoping they will be safe, loved, and valued. We send them to school expecting a safe community to support their academic journey. Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old non-binary student, attended Owasso High School in Oklahoma, where instead of being received by a safe and welcoming community, their family says they were relentlessly bullied for months over their gender identity.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
parents.com | Danielle Marie Holland
Season 6 of Love is Blind is currently airing, and it's been making headlines for a unique reason: it features the first single mom participant, Jessica Vestal. Early in the initial batch of released episodes, Jessica expressed her fear about revealing to the male contestants that she is a mother. "I'm super nervous about how some of the guys are gonna receive that I have a child,” she shared with the group.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
parents.com | Danielle Marie Holland
Just as students are getting back into the swing of things post winter break, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced 67 recipients of the EPA’s first Clean School Bus Program’s Grants Competition.1 The awards were possible thanks to President Joe Biden’s Investing in America initiative, and will allow for more than 2,700 school buses in 280 school districts serving over seven million students.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
deleciousfood.com | Danielle Marie Holland |Magnum Hermosa
Before moving on to the next story…THE South Seattle Emerald brought to you by Rainmakers. Rainmakers offer recurring gifts, regardless of the amount. With around 1,000 Rainmakers, the emerald is a truly local, community-driven media outlet. Help us keep BIPOC-led media free and accessible. If only half of our readers signed up to donate $6 a month, we wouldn’t have to fundraise for the rest of the year. Small amounts make a difference. We can’t do this work without you. Become a rainmaker today!
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
parents.com | Danielle Marie Holland
Barbie Summer is about to become Barbie Fall, as this month Barbie recognizes Wilma Mankiller as the newest addition to the Inspiring Women series. In honor of Mankiller’s upcoming birthday on November 18, Barbie collaborated closely with Wilma's family, friends, and the Cherokee Nation on the doll's creation.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
parents.com | Danielle Marie Holland
Right now, Congress is vastly divided over a plan to fund the government. And if lawmakers can't get their acts together, the government could shut down this weekend. The Senate reached a stopgap spending agreement late Tuesday afternoon that would keep government agencies open through November 17.
